Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF)

The Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF) is the hub of instrumentation
and data processing operations. It is three stories tall and contains
12,669 square meters (136,378 sq ft) of floor space and is located
to the west of the Headquarters Building. The building houses offices, laboratores and test
stations. Systems receive, monitor, process, display and record information
received from space vehicles during test, launch, flight and landing. It also
houses KSC calibration labs and the KSC administration computers.